The role of quotations

In the third issue called: A way with Words, or away with words: Effect of texting and IMing on Language of Arak Anthology, the author uses a lot of quotations and paraphrase to make his essay more reliable and more convincible.

There is one example of quotation in this essay. In the fourth paragraph, the author quotes a sentence from the booked called: Linguistic Ruin? LOL! Instant messaging and teen language, which is written by Sali A Tagliamonte and Derek Denis. This sentence is to illustrate that people often use abbreviations and short forms to text messages, but the fact is these forms are far from the truth and may confuse people in some way. The writer chose to quote this sentence here was to use some data to convince people and make his opinion easier for readers to understand. This quotation shows the idea that the author wants to show us, that is there are some drawbacks if you text someone in abbreviation forms.

The example of paraphrase in this essay is in the beginning of the tenth paragraph. The author quotes the “Gr8 Txtpectations: The creativity of Text Spelling.”, which is written by Tim Shortis. This quotation begins a new idea about whether should we text in non-standard spelling. The author quotes this source here because he wants to begin the topic about the poetic examples, which is also a kind of non-standard English, had been widely-used.

Blog Assignment 5

In the end of 19th Century, China was going through a hard time.

Japanese had become stronger and stronger during the 19th century. So the government of Japan wanted to expand the strength and influence in the world. In the 1894, Sino-Japanese war was broke out. After three stages of war, tons of Warships sink, masses of warriors died with honor, Qing Dynasty failed. As a winner, Japan force Chinese government to sign some unequal treaties, the Treaty of Shimonoseki. The signing of the treaty deepened the semi-colonial society of China; it had also made an important turning point of China’s modern national consciousness.

As a loser, China didn’t look back to Correct deficiencies made by the government. On the Contrary, China was becoming worth and worth. More wars happened and more unequal treaties were signed. Chinese just thought they got the ability to win other countries.

Few decades of years passed, Historians finally began to analysis the mistake. First, there were no ability to foreseen there will be some dangerous, and we must always prepare for the worst. Furthermore, we cannot rely on negotiations. And waiting for other countries’ help didn’t make any sense too. Last but not means the least, we cannot always think about giving up.

In conclusion, loser don’t mean lose anything if you continue correcting your drawbacks.